Conscious Fashion · Sustainable Lifestyle · Exploring California
Angelino’s, next Wednesday, a film screening for “Climate Warriors” will be taking place at the Aero theater in Santa Monica. This documentary focuses on the “energy transition” (structural change in energy systems toward the transformation of the global energy sector from fossil-based fuel to zero-carbon), activists, and how the energy revolution is possible! This semester, […]
My Pop is the son of a tailor and passed on to me his knowledge about how to put an outfit together. I remember him taking me shopping as a teenager and looking for the “perfect pixie boots,” which I’d imagined to be chocolate brown, completely flat and with a round point. During trips like this, my […]
Our Oceans Are Drowning in Plastic Every day, we generate around 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste. This is ten times the amount we produced a century ago. On Saturday, September 15th, the largest one-day volunteer event in California takes place. Volunteers will be getting together to take part in the International Coastal Clean-Up Day organized by […]
Skincare Confession Skincare is important to me. I have adult acne and I’ve tried many different regimens, both “natural” and dermatologist-recommended. I used to get regular facials, microdermabrasion, and transdermal mesotherapy but they were expensive and not particularly effective. I also geek out on the chemistry and biology of the skin. Eating affects it. The […]
I’ve been taking a Women Studies class over the Summer and I’ve been loving it! My professor is inspiring and doesn’t take any shit. I’m finding that the world of ethical fashion overlaps a great deal with the spirit of feminism. Before taking this class, I’d scrunch my nose up in response to someone identifying […]
The Physical Geography course I just completed taught me more about our world and the acute water pollution challenges that confront us. There is an island of rubbish twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean and 99% of seabirds have plastic in their stomachs. The news isn’t all bad – plastic straw bans […]